Recumbent chair



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Patented July 24, 1.883.

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EDMUND E. PEOK, OF CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS.

RECUMBENT CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 281,724, dated July 24, 1883,

- Application filed July 24,1882. (No model.)

T0 allv whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDMUND E. 1 1201;, of Chelsea, in the county of Suffolk, of the State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Recumbent Chairs; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a perspective elevation of a recumbent chair back and body or seatframe provided with my invention. Fig. 2 is a side view of part of the back and one of its sectoral filling pieces and the curved rack applied thereto. Fig. 3 is a section taken through the curved rack and its supporting sectoral piece. Fig. 4. is a rear view of the seat-frame, showing the rear posts of its arms as recessed to receive the filling-pieces. Fig. 5 is a top view of one of the said rear posts and its lever-pawl, to be described. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the back-retracting spring, hereinafter explained. Fig. 7 is a vertical section taken through the back post of the body, and showing the fillingpiece, the curved rack, and the back-stops, to be described.

The nature of my invention is defined in the claim presented. N

In the drawings, A denotes the chair-body or seatframe, having legs and arms as usual,

while B is the chair-back, which at its lower part is hinged or pivoted to the said body, so as to enable such back to be moved rearward and inclined relatively to the body or seat thereof, as is common to backs of recumbent chairs. From the lower part of each post a of the back thereis projected a sectoral-shaped filling-piece, b, which is to enter a recess, 0, made in the rear post, d, of the next adjacent arm, 6, of the seat-frame. This filling-piece is to answer two or more'purposesthat is, it is not only to support'a curved rack, f, fixed to it, and arranged with it as represented, but is to move backward with the back and practically fill the sectoral space between the back post and the arm, and in' so doing prevent the coatsleeve of a sitter in the chair from being caught between the back and the arm while such back may be in movement up to the arm. Let into or applied to each filling-piece and fastened to it by screws is a curved metallic rack, f, provided at its inner end with a head, h, formed into engagement with the racks.

is fulcrumed to the post (Z, or a support-piece,

k, fastened thereto. There is to the inner arm of the lever-pawl a knob, Z, and applied to such arm is a spring, m, to press it outward,

the said spring being fixed to the arm-rest a. Furthermore, there is in each arm of the chair a spiral spring, D, provided with two arms, 0 and 1;, extending from opposite ends of it, a perspective view of such spring being shown in. Fig. 6. The spring, arranged within the chair-arm in manner as represented, is sup ported in place by a block or' abutment, q, screwed to the arm-rest and arranged across the lesser or horizontal arm of the spring, and to bear against the coils of the spring. The longer arm of the spring extends downward, and is connected to the head It by a wire, 0*.

The abutment q not only serves as a means of The mechanism for maintaining the chairback in an inclined position is so placed with in the chair-arm as to be covered from view by the upholstering thereof when the chair is completed. 'To depress the back, a person seated in the chair should place his hands on the. knobs of the lever-pawls and press them inward, so as to cause the pawls to be moved out of the curved racks, after which he is to,

force the back rearward to the desirable position and remove his hands from the knobs and allow the pawls to be forced by their springs On again pressing inward the knobs, so as to disengage the pawls from the racks, the spring D of each arm will be free to draw the back forward to place. The upper part, a, of the head h, and a pin, 0, let into the chair-arm, serve as stops to arrest the back of the chair when it is atits extreme rearward position. The lower part of the head serves as one means of securing the rack to the filling-piece, a screw, w, being inserted through such lower part and screwed into the filling-piece.

I am aware that it is not new to apply catches, racks, and springs to a chair back and arms IOO for the purpose of movin and setting the back in any of its desired positions relativelyto the seat.

I am also aware that it is not new to have a slide jointed to the chair-back and arranged to play within one of the arm-rests of the seat. Therefore I make no claim to such in the abstract. \Vith the sectoral filling-piece to enter the post supporting the arm-rest the space between the back and such post is practically closed when the back is reclined, which is not the case with the slide to work into the armrest.

I am aware that recumbent chairs have been devised having sectoral filling-pieces, some with racks and others with springs, and that they are constructed and operated similarly to mine. I lay no claim, therefore, to a broad invention, but to my own special arrangement and adaptation of parts.

What I claim as my invention in the recumbent chair is as follows, viz: 

